Various, John Waite, Stray Cats, Marshall Crenshaw, Brian O'Neal, Missing Persons, Thomas Dolby, Lords Of The New Church, Ralf Hütter, The Beat, The Fibonaccis

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Boston Alternative

College radio, cheap rehearsal rooms and loud guitars: the US underground's most literate, least glamorous engine room.